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HTS has roots in al-Qaeda, though it broke with the group in 2016 and at times has fought its rump loyalists.

Sloan and his fellow rich reactionaries established a rump anti-New Deal bloc, the American Liberty League, to lobby against FDR’s policies from inside the Democratic Party.

“We have to absolutely at any cost make sure that donkey’s rump Trump doesn’t get elected and destroy democracy,” Khosla said at a Bloomberg event.

All the other elephants in his herd run to him at the first sign of trouble; during calmer times, they willingly present him with their rumps in a seeming sign of submission.

The Conservatives won a landslide victory to take control of the council in 2021, leaving a rump of Labour councillors.